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Anti-Empire Report #121: The War on Terrorism … or whatever

Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 5:20 pm | William Blum

Pity the poor American who wants to be a good citizen, wants to understand the world and his country’s role in it, wants to believe in the War on Terrorism, wants to believe that his government seeks to do good … What is he to make of all this? More >>

Four Decades after the Tishrin: War Self-Delusion

Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 5:08 pm | Franklin Lamb

Is Damascus this weekend and many other areas of Syria, citizens will celebrate the accomplishments of the October 6, 1973 19 day war launched jointly by Syrian and Egyptian armies to regain Arab land illegally occupied in 1967. More >>

Martin Doyle cartoon: Choice

Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 5:02 pm | Martin Doyle

The decision to keep the Harcourts Building in the centre-city standing even though it is an earthquake risk and cannot be used by its owner will come back to haunt Wellington. More >>

Helen Kelly's Speech to CTU on “Insecure” Work in NZ

Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 3:26 pm | Hamish Cardwell

Thirty percent of New Zealand workers are “under pressure” and in insecure work according to a report from the Council of Trade Unions. More >>

David Cunliffe: Minimum and Living Wage Pledge

Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 1:49 pm | Hamish Cardwell

A fired up David Cunliffe said Labour would raise the minimum wage and was committed to a living wage for government employees in one of his first major speeches as Labour Leader. More >>

A Fake? -- "America's Souvenir to the Iranian People"

Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 12:38 pm | Suzan Mazur

The big thaw in US - Iran relations has been compromised. The world's leading authority on antiquities fakes -- long-time Metropolitan Museum of Art Ancient Near East expert Oscar White Muscarella, who excavated throughout the 1960s in Iran -- has told me ... More >>

Gordon Campbell on that alluringly elusive TPP trade deal

Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 11:39 am | Gordon Campbell

How is this for a ‘cart before the horse’ notion of democracy, as practiced by the Key government? From the NZ Herald this morning: [Prime Minister John Key] is also indicating he wants a deal done as soon as possible so he can publicly discuss ... More >>

"Under Pressure", Cunliffe's CTU Biennial Speech | 500 Words

Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 8:36 am | Alastair Thompson

"Under Pressure" - Labour Party Leader David Cunliffe's CTU Biennial Speech | 500 Words - A video interview with CTU President Helen Kelly - More >>

Briefly: HP Chromebook 11; iTunes Radio for NZ, Vodafone

Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 8:10 am | Digitl

HP's brand is on the latest Google Chromebook which launched yesterday in New York. The HP Chromebook 11 is cheap at just US$279 - about NZ$340. It has an 11-inch 1366 x 768 pixel display with in -plane switching - which means a better screen than you'll ... More >>

Undernews: October 7, 2013

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 5:28 pm | Undernews

The Israel Democracy Institute released its latest Democracy Index (summary and full findings), [confirming] that by and large Israelis hold racist views and reject bedrock democratic principles, while believing that their country should be both Jewish and ... More >>

Time for a Dignified Minimum Wage

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 5:22 pm | Ben Jealous

This summer, minimum wage workers in California abandoned their posts at fast food restaurants and retail stores for spots on the picket line. They joined workers in cities across the country to demand an increase in the minimum wage. More >>

European Austerity Hits America: Time to Suffer

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 4:53 pm | John Stanton

“Game Over”, so to speak. The dark times are here in America. You are on your own. The federal-state-local governments are broke. No more benefits for hungry children, homeless veterans and civilians. No more full-time employment with benefit packages. More >>

Review: Blue Jasmine, Riddick, What Maisie Knew

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 4:38 pm | Funerals and Snakes

When did “late-period: Woody Allen start? Was it with Match Point (when he finally left New York for some new scenery)? Or should we consider these last ten, globe-trotting, years as late-r Woody? The last ten years have certainly been up and down in terms ... More >>

Is the Federal Government a Drug-Induced Hallucination?

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 4:27 pm | David Swanson

You laugh, but that could be a side-effect. Consider: The Capitol Police just murdered an unarmed mother fleeing her car on foot, declared her child "unharmed," and received the longest standing-ovation in Congress since Osama bin Laden's Muslim sea burial. More >>

Martin Doyle cartoon: Losing the private bits

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 4:27 pm | Martin Doyle

Minister Amy Adams is blithely championing the TICS Bill. Meanwhile the last shreds of privacy for Kiwis (and their businesses/universities) are being torn from their bodies. More >>

Beginning the Ending of War

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 4:18 pm | David Swanson

As I write this, in September 2013, something extraordinary has just happened. Public pressure has led the British Parliament to refuse a prime minister's demand for war for the first time since the surrender at Yorktown, and the U.S. Congress has followed ... More >>

Egypt’s Repressive Model and Muzzling Soltan

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 3:01 pm | Abukar Arman

While the coup and the ensuing repressive bloody outcome was, by and large, propelled by indigenously Egyptian political dynamics, it is naïve to assume that there were no geopolitical dynamics at play. More >>

UK's Guardian Bids To Become World's First Global Paper

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 2:51 pm | Sherwood Ross

If Americans complain they aren't getting the true story about foreign affairs, they're very likely right. By choosing to ignore, say, reporting about the carnage the U.S. has wrought, and the wreckage it has left, across the globe, the American print and ... More >>

The “Needless” Oversight: The NSA Review Panel Shut Down

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 2:47 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The message about the U.S. surveillance state for some time has been one of cosmic, immoveable proportion. The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss spoke of “cold societies” – those operating under unchanging assumptions about nature, about matters of immutable ... More >>

All about Giap: The Red Napoleon and the Ends of Revolution

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 2:45 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The fabled bookish General Vo Nguyen Giap was a revolutionary commander who, unlike others, left a revolutionary legacy. The pocket books of those who speak of “legacies” are scanty, filled with romantic reflection and the moment of suicidal release, but ... More >>

The Death Mill: Qatar and the World Cup

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 2:44 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The construction of the Great Wall of China, initiated by the Emperor Qin Shihuang, was achieved at incredible human cost. Bodies sacrificed in the course of construction were buried near the wall as reminders of their labour in what became, in accordance ... More >>

Did we just spend $1.5 billion on a network for Sky TV?

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 2:11 pm | Digitl

A $45 per month Sky TV subscription is the centrepiece of Vodafone's Red Home fibre internet package launched on Friday. More >>

Standing in the Sunshine, The Answer is Blowin’ in the Wind

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 1:53 pm | Walter Brasch

Tokelau, an independent territory of New Zealand, is a small three island archipelago of about 1,400 residents about 300 miles north of American Samoa in the South Pacific. In October 2012, the Polynesian nation turned off the last of its diesel generators ... More >>

Lincoln University: Lync is our telephone system

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 12:57 pm | Digitl

Lincoln University IT director Stuart Reilly says in 2010 the university's telephone system was "a traditional Nortel PBX". More >>

Negotiating under the Shadow of the Palestinian Refugees

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 12:55 pm | Alon Ben-Meir

One of the main issues that Israelis and Palestinians are struggling with in the ongoing negotiations is the Palestinian refugee problem. Although in previous negotiations in 2000 and 2008-2009 both sides agreed on certain modalities that would permit only ... More >>

People’s History of Gaza and Egypt:The Bond Cannot Be Broken

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 12:15 pm | Ramzy Baroud

Egypt’s new ruler, General Abdul Fatah al-Sisi, may not realize that the bond between Egypt, Palestine and especially Gaza is beyond historic, and simply cannot be severed with border restrictions, albeit they have caused immense suffering for many Palestinians. More >>

Gordon Campbell on the media’s duty to evaluate the TPP

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 12:05 pm | Gordon Campbell

One downside of so called ‘objectivity’ is that it can turn the media into a simple megaphone for those in power - especially in situations where the media chooses to effectively abandon its role in evaluating the information it is being fed. The ... More >>

New Zealand moves up tech development index

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 8:20 am | Digitl

New Zealand has moved two places up the ITU global technology rankings to 16. That puts New Zealand one place ahead of the USA and in front of France, Germany and Canada. More >>

A Slow-Motion Genocide: Indonesian Rule In West Papua

Monday, 7 October 2013, 5:25 pm | Joint Press Release

This paper examines and extends the debate on genocide in West Papua. Referring to the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention, examples of genocidal acts are listed: killings, causing serious bodily and mental harm, the deliberate infliction of conditions ... More >>

Martin Doyle cartoon: Ship that's always burning

Monday, 7 October 2013, 3:07 pm | Martin Doyle

The loss of so many lives off the coast of Lampedusa is a tragedy. But the greater mystery is why Africa is haemorrhaging so many people year after year after year. More >>

Telecom NZ 4G next month, no extra charge

Monday, 7 October 2013, 2:56 pm | Digitl

Telecom NZ said this morning it will launch its 4G mobile internet services in parts of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch next month. The date is earlier than anticipated. More >>

Public Address 3 October 2013 - Music: Doing the Business

Monday, 7 October 2013, 12:25 pm | Public Address

I was going to give the whole Lorde thing a rest this week, but, hey, she's number one on the Billboard Hot 100 this morning, so maybe it's worth fishing this out of comments for last week's music post. That much-talked-about big 360 deal she signed ... More >>

Saudi Arabian Women Driving Cars Won't Damage Their Ovaries

Monday, 7 October 2013, 12:19 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich

Saudi Arabian women scored a hilarious boost to their campaign for the right to drive when an Islamist cleric became an international laughingstock for insisting ovaries suffer damage if women hold a steering wheel because it "pushes the pelvis upwards." More >>

Undernews: October 1, 2013

Monday, 7 October 2013, 12:01 pm | Undernews

The National Security Agency is storing the online metadata of millions of internet users for up to a year, regardless of whether or not they are persons of interest to the agency, top secret documents reveal. More >>

Martin Doyle cartoon: Screening the applicants

Monday, 7 October 2013, 11:47 am | Martin Doyle

Wellington City Council's decision to employ unpaid members of the public to monitor its security cameras is an innocent but early indication of how universal surveillance will be managed: citizen on citizen. More >>

How does the Nokia Lumia 1020 rate as a business phone?

Sunday, 6 October 2013, 2:30 pm | Digitl

Telecom NZ's website sells the Nokia Lumia 1020 as a business phone on its website. You'll even find the bright yellow model listed under business. More >>

Does Kim Dotcom's third world NZ internet claim stand up?

Saturday, 5 October 2013, 3:05 pm | Digitl

Kim Dotcom tells us New Zealand has third world internet. Dotcom is a showman. He knows how to create headlines, but is there any substance to the claim? More >>

India's Hindu Temples Possess Gold Worth Half of Fort Knox

Saturday, 5 October 2013, 12:31 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich

BANGKOK, Thailand -- India's Hindu temples possess donated gold which may equal half of America's Fort Knox bullion, but some are rejecting demands by the government to reveal the value of their sacred stockpiles. More >>

Martin Doyle cartoon: Mother Earth's Pirates

Friday, 4 October 2013, 4:43 pm | Martin Doyle

There are nations which 'attack' the environment and plunder its resources. But the Earth's defenders, the Greenpeace campaigners, are not the actual "pirates" in this crime. More >>

Telecom NZ throws hat in 700 Mhz ring

Friday, 4 October 2013, 4:04 pm | Digitl

As expected Telecom NZ publicly confirmed it will be bidding in the 700 MHz spectrum action. The auction is scheduled to start at the end of this month. More >>

Snap extends UFB footprint

Friday, 4 October 2013, 3:38 pm | Digitl

South Island-based ISP Snap says it has added the fibre regions serviced by Ultrafast Fibre to boost its UFB footprint. More >>

Vodafone TV adds secret sauce to home fibre

Friday, 4 October 2013, 2:54 pm | Digitl

Vodafone New Zealand took the wraps off its consumer UFB offering at a Herne Bay villa earlier today. Its plans combine broadband and TV. More >>

Gordon Campbell on the shutdown of the US government

Friday, 4 October 2013, 12:22 pm | Gordon Campbell

Surely, isn’t it time for the Republican Party to be designated as a terrorist organisation? Their current shutdown of the federal government has been bad enough, but the jihad these fanatics have chosen to wage against the Obama administration ... More >>

Briefly: Xeperia Z1; Christchurch dev jobs; 20TB hard drives

Friday, 4 October 2013, 8:04 am | Digitl

Telecom NZ is now selling the Sony Xperia Z1 smartphone. It's a waterproof device with a 21 megapixel camera that puts it contention with Nokia's Lumia 1020 , also sold by Telecom. Telecom's retail price for the phone is $1000, you can get it for ... More >>

Martin Doyle cartoon: Time to stamp out violence

Thursday, 3 October 2013, 5:33 pm | Martin Doyle

The current wave of assaults in our jails and psych hospitals is just a pale reflection of the violence on our streets and in our sport. You have to wonder by what methods, if they were ever so moved, Kiwis would "stamp out" violence. More >>

Sales up at Xero

Thursday, 3 October 2013, 3:51 pm | Digitl

Xero says its sales were up 84 percent for the six months to September 30. More >>

Behind Telecom NZ's mobile data traffic surge

Thursday, 3 October 2013, 3:26 pm | Digitl

The year to August 2013 saw mobile data traffic climb 91 percent while data traffic on Telecom NZ's Wi-Fi hotspot network climbed 23 percent in a single month. More >>

The Fundraising Message That Ate America

Thursday, 3 October 2013, 12:26 pm | William Rivers Pitt

On Monday afternoon, with a government shutdown looming, more than 200 disabled Americans swarmed the Longworth House Office Building in Washington DC and demanded that Speaker Boehner abandon his party's ongoing attempts to screw them over by defunding the ... More >>

Public Address 2 October 2013 - The Crazy Gang Nation

Thursday, 3 October 2013, 12:06 pm | Public Address

Every time someone drives the US government into a brick wall, I think of the day that one of my high school teachers presented the American trinity – the legislature, the executive and the judiciary – as the most highly-evolved state of democracy. More >>

Solari Update: 3rd Quarter Wrap-up - Oct. 3

Thursday, 3 October 2013, 11:52 am | Catherine Austin Fitts

The world I refer to as the "legacy systems" is fading and a new world is being born. But, what's driving economic growth? How are events behind the scenes impacting economic growth? What does this mean to financial markets? Finally, what does this mean to ... More >>

Talk Nation Radio: Nathan Schneider on the Occupy Apocalypse

Thursday, 3 October 2013, 11:39 am | David Swanson

Nathan Schneider is an editor of the websites Waging Nonviolence and Killing the Buddah. He reported on / participated in Occupy Wall Street from before Day 1. He has now published Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse. More >>

Save the Nobel Peace Prize from Itself

Thursday, 3 October 2013, 11:35 am | David Swanson

On October 11, we'll learn whether the Norwegian Nobel Committee is interested in reviving the Nobel Peace Prize or putting another nail in its coffin. Alfred Nobel's vision for the Nobel Peace Prize created in his will was a good one and, one might ... More >>